Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)

p4bl0•about 5 hours ago

This made me think of Recursive Sans and Recursive Mono, two fonts which are also very malleable with multiple settings, but also open source.

https://www.recursive.design/

cornedor•about 2 hours ago

Capital I and lowercase L are identical, not ideal, but maybe not that much of a problem for the use cases of this font.

Enpece•about 1 hour ago

Judging by this page: https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/compare/196

You can activate an OpenType feature to change the shape of the l to be more visually distinct from the uppercase I

jdboyd•about 5 hours ago

This looks like a cool typeface in how much it can vary itself, but the price feels extremely expensive, and I don't like having to keep track of which of my library of typefaces are allowed to be used on which projects based on which license I bothered to buy for that typeface. Saying that I want to load the font onto a video server raises the price for a single variant to $1500ish, and there is no clarity on what license you need for web videos. Does that count as a movie license, or a TV license, or a web site license?

qznc•about 2 hours ago

I don't get it. When would I use Zed Text and when Zed Display?

Enpece•about 1 hour ago

The definition of Display fonts is quite loose. Generally speaking, display fonts are made to grab attention by incorporating some more extravagant visual features (think something like Papyrus)

They are made for shorter texts that are often written in a bigger font. Again I talk about this in a very general way because it depends on the font and other factors. But usually this includes things like headings. So they would use slightly different proportions that wouldn't work that well at small sizes, but stand out more in bigger sizes compared to the "text" variant.

So in this case you would use Zed Text for all your larger text blocks and Zed Display for headings or maybe emphasized words. But to be honest, since they are pretty close visually, you can get away with using Zed Text for everything imho.

smashmiek•about 2 hours ago

Display versions of typefaces are generally used for headings or larger type.

Text versions are used for longer text, and are usually optimised for smaller type sizes and readability.

sph•about 6 hours ago

Zed Text, not affiliated with the Zed text editor.

mikae1•about 5 hours ago

Nope, has nothing to do with https://github.com/zed-industries/zed-fonts

I think this ended up on the front page because people instinctively upvoted Zed-something.

thewhitetulip•about 4 hours ago

I dislike this trend of common words being used for tools

It started with Go, then Rust, then Zed. Whatever happened to giving a unique name like Hadoop?

linzhangrun•about 3 hours ago

Moreover, these new names seem to not consider the ambiguity issues in browser searches.

boobsbr•about 2 hours ago

Java and Ruby were created in 1995.

Lua in 1993.

Python in 1991.

C in 1972.

Lisp in 1960.

thewhitetulip•about 2 hours ago

Big difference in using a genric name 45yrs ago vs using generic name post 2020

maipen•about 1 hour ago

I like it actually, i wouldn’t mind paying for fonts or icons if they were double digit priced.

I know some startups that love burning their money are the target audience, but still…

brainwad•about 2 hours ago

Is it just me, or is the lower-case s too tall? It sticks out like a sore thumb in the paragraphs, clearly taller than other x-height letters like e, o or r.

Zed, A sans for the needs of 21st century (2024)

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